History & Milne Library

How are we changing?

Milne’s OrganizationYou

Faculty, StudentsStaff, Community, etc.

Administration

Library IT

User Services(IDS, Reference,

Instruction, Research, & Service Desk)

Technical Services

IDS Project

Group Project Spaces…More Group Study18 group study areas added to Milne, plus an Imaginarium

And more to add because we get about 4,000 visitors per day.

We also made Fraser Study Center more conducive to group study.

Writing & Learning Center

Welles Writing Center is moving in with the Milne Writing & Learning Center January 2012Increased space needs in Milne Library

Getting It System Toolkit (IDS Request)

Services

Google Books ~20+ million items

Hathi Trust 2.6 million free

public domain eBooks

&Internet Archive,

Project Gutenberg, and more services…

GIST Gifts & Deselection ManagerGIST is also used to

streamline Gift Management and evaluate collections; in

roughly 13 months, we processed over 4K donated books and DVDs, accepting about 700 items or roughly $49K worth of acquisitions.

This helps – we borrow thousands of books, yet

Milne has also doubled the number of purchased books in the last couple of years.

GIST can also be used to evaluate the duplication of

collections and check for full text options..

GIST tools are distributed to libraries through the IDS

Project.

IDS ProjectLibrary cooperative of 72 NY Libraries administered by SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library.

Experts at innovation and best practices in library resource sharing. Software and tools used across the country by libraries: ALIAS, GIST, TPAM, Workflow Toolkit

Turnaround Benchmarks: • 48 hours for articles• 72 hours for loans

IDS Conference Aug. 2-3rd, 2011 in Albany had 250 attendees.3 Keynotes:• Matthew Sheehy, Director of Access, Harvard Libraries• David Ferrucci, IBM Watson Deep QA Principal Investigator• Robert Lippincott, Senior Vice President, Public Broadcasting Corporation

Initiatives: Geneseo Authors Hall

Initiatives: Scholarly Communication Services

Scholarly Communications Services

Annual Geneseo Authors Recognition, publishing resources, contract consultation & publishing research, online journal hosting, workshops, etc.

http://libguides.geneseo.edu/content.php?pid=171524

What are your interests for this service?

Initiatives: Milne Special Collections ArchiveA design proposal for Summer 2012

Milne Lower Level

An innovative home for Special Collections @ Milne

Initiatives: Instructional Design & Library Instruction

• Milne Library, CIT, and TLC are collaborating to provide faculty a set of coordinated instructional design and technology services that enhances teaching and learning services, and effective use of MyCourses, web services, and other services and tools.

• Milne Library is committed to providing exceptional library instruction services; Milne create and lead regional professional development efforts with programs such as LILAC, Library Information Literacy Academy – nationally recognized with the ACRL 2011 Innovation Award.

What research projects or changes are you hoping to incorporate into your courses? And how can we help?

Digital Projects

Digital Media Lab

Digital Scholarship• Digital storytelling• Open Journal Systems • Online Archives• Social media

Custom Services• Research or Technology

Consultations• Project Management• Instructional Design – in

collaboration with CIT, TLC

Thanks to a partnership between; SUNY Geneseo, Thoreau Institute, Thoreau Society…

• Researchers, Scholars, Students, Teachers will have access to 7 online versions of Walden to see Henry David Thoreau’s evolving work.

• Community will annotate and add comments to a community version of the text.

• Geneseo students will learn how to encode text (TEI), work on a digital humanities project, and explore humanities on Walden pond.

Learning Environment & Digital Services

Classic Reading – concept & exampleHarvard Classics

51 volume anthology of classics – compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles William Eliot. Started in 1909 as “Dr Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf of Book” as key elements of liberal education.Divine Comedy vol. 20

Great Books of the Western World60 volumes of books on the Great Books list – essential primary sources of Western civilization as discussed by educators in 1920s-1930s. Divine Comedy vol. 21

Milne has about 16 printed versions of Divine Comedy, with a cumulative checkout of 29 uses for the last 7 years…

Reprint Galore

Divine Comedy

Google books

Digital Humanities & Dante

Digital Humanities & Dante

History & Milne Library: Collections

Print Reference & Scholarship Dilemma

History & Milne Library: Collections

History & Milne LibraryDeselection Process“Right-sizing” CollectionMaking the collection more browser friendly & useful to students.

Criteria• Not used in last 5 years, and very low total checkout• Widely held by IDS Project & NY Libraries (access via IDS)• Available at: HathiTrust, Google Books, etc. (access as free ebook)• Preserving a copy locally or cooperatively – balancing factors:• Special Collections role; faculty authors, local history, other?• Role of NYPL and SUNY/area research libraries

ProcessHistory Faculty provided list of candidates for deselection, but missed the anomalies; lost or damaged books, DVDs, etc. How much do you want to evaluate the lists? Other suggestions?

History & Milne Library

History & Milne LibraryIDS Requests

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Total number of monographs purchased, all subject areas

84%

SUNY Geneseo – Milne Library

History Department – Library expenditures

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Books/Media $ 3,679.14 $ 3,604.36 $ 3,048.81 $ 3,424.53 $ 2,996.12 $ 2,633.70 $ 1,090.59 $ 3,034.57 † $ 2,787.28

† $ 1,027.56 $ 2,007.01

Journals n/a n/a $ 6,981.49 $ 7,156.86 $ 7,334.90 $ 6,141.45 $ 6,940.57 $ 5,478.85 $ 4,388.15

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011$0.00

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Database expenditures

Database expenditures

Milne Library Databases – History & relevant multidisciplinary

History & Milne LibraryDesired Resource List:

Purchasing Options:a. Buy it by eliminating another resource – usage data for decision?

b. Buy it by finding outside funding (annual + ~6-8%):• History Alumni?• History Department funds?• Other suggestions?

c. Keep it on the list

History & Milne Library

Thank you

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